Good People, This is now a bit off-topic, but I believe it is an important issue for the engineering community.
I am not certain how ODF is considered "write-only". The common example is PDF - which is considered "write-only" by the producer, and would be "read-only" for the consumer. In any case XML, HTML, etc, in their "raw" form, are just text files, which are easily read from or written to using the most simple of editors. Proprietary data formats are not good, and even among the same vendor, subsequent versions of the same program have tended to break data file formats produced by previous versions. I have written many a line of code to parse and convert older data files for use in the most recent version software that used a proprietary format and/or a non-documented format. So here is what can be done with, and to, the ODF: the fix: http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyexcelerator http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/ http://code.google.com/p/py-odftools/ who is doing it: http://www.odfalliance.org/ http://opendocumentfellowship.org/ What the big guy says: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/07/06/microsoft-office-to-support-odf-the- qa/ http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2006/07/07/microsoft-odf-announcement-followup/ The best solution for the long term: www.openoffice.org http://xml.openoffice.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_applications_supporting_OpenDocument R/S, Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of John > Woodgate > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:44 PM > To: Brian O'Connell > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [EMC-PSTC] Wordwide Frequencies and Power Levels > for 802.11 > > In message <[email protected]>, > dated Mon, 2 > Apr 2007, Brian O'Connell <[email protected]> writes: > > >But I do make one humble suggestion - please do not 'bind' the > >document's data (or meta data) to any specific software application. > >E.g., in lieu of an Excel file , save in ODF (ISO/IEC > 26300), or if no > >metadata, save as a CSV file. > > CSV is OK, but isn't ODF a 'write-only' format? Which > widely-distributed > software can open ODF files? > -- > OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk > There are benefits from being irrational - just ask the > square root of 2. > John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
